Signal-lantern



J. A. HYDE.

SIGNAL LANTERN.

(No Model.)

No. 415,205. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. HYDE, OF MILLERTON, NEW YORK.

SIGNAL-LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,205, dated November 19, 1889.

Application filed December 8, 1888. Serial No. 292,977. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES A. HYDE, of Millerton, in the county of Dutehess and State of New York, have invented .a certain new and useful Improvement in Signal Lanterns, whereof the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where Figure 1 is a side viewof a lantern embodying said improvement with the door of the signal-tube open. Fig. 2 is a detail view ofa portion of said lantern in vertical section through the center of the signal-tube with the door thereof closed. Fig. is a bottom view of the lantern. Fig. -.t is a View of the lower partof the lantern in section on plane a" 00.

The letter (L denotes an uncolored glass globe of a common hand-lantern; Z) denotes the ordinary metallic frame above the same; 0 denotes the ordinary metallic frame below the same, and (Z denotes a wire guard for the glass globe. The horizontally-arranged bracebar (1 of the wire guard has its ends secured to the sides of the signal-tube, and serves to hold the tube in position.

The letter 6 denotes a signal-tube, the rear portion of which is closely fitted to the contour of the glass globe. It has within it a colored glass plate f-cominonlv red glass. It

has on the outer or front end a door g of any suitable construction, which may be opened or closed, and in case it has a hinged door it may have a spring-catch to keep it closed, such as is indicated in Fig. 1.

\Vhen the lamp inside the lantern is lighted and the door g is closed, the lantern serves as an ordinary lantern, but by opening the door g the signaltube will throw out a colored light, and the lantern mty be used for appropriate signaling purposes. The signaltube is held in position by connection to the brace-bar d, as heretofore stated, and by being attached to the upper and lower frames Z) and 0 In the bottom of the lantern there is formed a magazine It, intended to contain that kind of torpedoes used forsignaling purposes on railways. This magazine is provided w th some suitable door, the character of which is not essential. and in the drawings, Fig. 4, it is shown as a sliding door '11.

I claim as my improvement- In a signal-lantern, the combination, with the globe, the top and bottom metallic frames, and the wire guard, of a signal-tube provided with a signal-glass, and a door to close the tube, and a horizontally-arranged holding and brace wire secured to the wire guard with its ends fastened to the signal-tube, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

JAMES A. HYDE.

\Yitnesses:

A. B. JENKINS, II. E. HAOKARACH. 

